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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Bismarck, ND

July 6, 1998McKenzie County, North Dakota

NWS Bismarck, ND issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1998, 3:31 PM CDT for McKenzie County, North Dakota. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1998, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1998, 4:35 PM CDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Bismarck, ND
Area
Whole counties

County McKenzie County, ND

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1998-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 16 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 1998-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -146 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-306 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KISN 062032 RRA
SVRISN
NDC053-062135-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILLISTON ND
331 PM CDT (231 PM MDT) MON JUL 6 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILLISTON HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MCKENZIE COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN NORTH DAKOTA

* UNTIL 435 PM CDT

* AT AT 325 PM CDT (225 PM MDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER
  RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 32 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WILLISTON OR 7 MILES WEST OF FAIRVIEW... MOVING EAST AT AROUND 30
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  EAST FAIRVIEW AT 340 PM CDT (240 PM MDT)
  CARTWRIGHT AT 355 PM CDT (255 PM MDT)

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

CECIL

WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING... PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS S|HOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Bismarck, ND issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurke48 min
Jul 5, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningBISBurke34 min
Jul 5, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWard44 min
Jul 5, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail47 min
Jul 5, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISDivide, Williams58 min
Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail58 min
Jul 5, 10:47 PM CDTTornado WarningBISWilliams28 min
Jul 5, 11:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail46 min
Jul 6, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMountrail, Ward61 min
Jul 6, 4:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISWard64 min
Jul 6, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningBISWard49 min
Jul 6, 5:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISEmmons47 min
Jul 6, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh45 min
Jul 6, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean45 min
Jul 6, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcKenzie60 min
Jul 6, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISRenville32 min
Jul 6, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcIntosh31 min
Jul 6, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISBurleigh, Kidder50 min
Jul 6, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBISMcLean63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Dakota, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.